如何看待李大钊对西方史学思想史的研究

关于李大钊对西方史学思想史的研究,有的人感到迷惑不解,更有的人据此认为李大钊的历史观是多元的、对唯物史观点持批判态度的。事实上,李大钊对西方史学思想史的教学研究与他对唯物史观的宣传是有内在联系的两件事。他对西方史学思想史的研究意在说明,唯物史观的产生不是偶然的,它是西方进步历史思想发展的必然结果,而进步的西方史学思想的发展是唯物史观产生的重要前提。他在对史学思想史的教学中虽然没有更多地讲唯物史观,但他进行这种探索的指导思想仍然是他在头脑中初步形成的唯物史观。

How to Treat Li Dazhao's Study on the Western History of Thoughts

Some scholars are puzzled at Li Dazhoa's opinion of history. In fact, Li's teaching and study on the Western history of thoughts and his propaganda of historical materialism are closely linked. He intended in his study to show that historical materialism did not chance to happen, but a necessary result of progressive thoughts that forms the prerequisite of the birth of historical materialism. In his teaching, he did not mention historical materialism, but he had some of it in his mind.